3 Introduction

Oracle Financial Services Accounting Foundation Cloud Service is secure as delivered. The purpose of this guide is to explain how to enable user access to the Functions and Data in the Oracle Financial Services Accounting Foundation Cloud Service. You perform some of the tasks in this guide mainly during implementation. Most, however, can also be performed later and as the requirements emerge.

This topic summarizes the scope of this guide and identifies the contents of each chapter.

The Oracle Financial Services Accounting Foundation Cloud Service is a Platform to host Software as a Service (SaaS) Applications from Oracle’s Financial Services Global Business Unit (FSGBU). The platform provides a secure and consistent environment for the deployment and operation of SaaS Applications. It also provides unified security features to all services deployed on the platform in the areas of User Identity Management and the Management of Access Entitlements provisioned to users.